From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QszV0-0001vD-59 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:54:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA9D821C219; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:54:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C8C21C12D for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.151] (helo=smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QszUJ-00024B-V7 for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:54:03 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QszUJ-0002NC-5j for gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:54:03 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5C9CF1 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:57:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FpWK3U--y2Z5 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:57:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A2AE70E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:57:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Xen Dom0 using kernel 3.0 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:54:01 +0200 Message-ID: <3506609.LxEt7Z0A4y@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1QszUJ-0002NC-5j X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.729, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.81) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b65aa2bb80bc81adb01adfca737549fd On Monday, August 15, 2011 08:30:04 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:47, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Mon, August 15, 2011 2:22 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:08, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> On Mon, August 15, 2011 8:18 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 02:29, Joost Roeleveld > >>>>>> That is, how to provide sensible defaults yet not irreversibly > >>>>>> removing Gentoo's freedom. So, GeDZux will be a Gentoo > >>>>>> variant, a > >>>>>> 'submetadistro', if you will :P > >>>>> > >>>>> A profile putting all the necessary tools (xen, kernel, > >>>>> bridge,....) > >>>>> as > >>>>> required. > >>>> > >>>> Aha! Good idea. Let me learn how to make a profile then. > >>> > >>> That way we can also set default USE-flags suitable for when using > >>> Xen. > >> > >> Gotcha :-) > >> > >> I'm going to try out on my company's VMware boxes (the guys at > >> xen-users said that Xen runs okay on VMware, albeit without HVM domU > >> support). > > > > I think starting with a list of packages and use-flags needed to get PV > > and HVM domains running would be a good starting point. > > Then, we can put that into a profile and create a stage4 tar-file with > > current versions. > > I assume those are packages and use-flags on the dom0? I agree. > > Anyways, good news: I may soon land my grubby hands on an unused IBM > Server. It's a new-ish one, AFAICT, so it should support VT-x. > > We can thus test HVM domU's, yay! I've got 2 machines that can run HVM. I am planning on setting one of these up for dual boot into xen for testing purposes already. The other is already running Xen, but not done any HVM on there yet. > > I think it would be a good idea to try to continue on this with the > > maintainers for Xen on Gentoo? > > Aren't they on this list, too? I don't know. If this were gentoo-user, then i'd assume so.